:-) Laughing out loud! That was a good morning comment for me. Just crawled out of my bed, have a coffee (thankfully the coffeemaker cannot break for I am using your porcelain Melitta filter holder every day) and sipping while reading.

I hear you. We modern people nowadays are having great troubles to interest one another of our professions. You have no clues what your accountant talks about, he has none of how to paint, use brushes, materials, treating of canvasses and so on. We are condemned to be specialists and hardly can get hold on anyone who truly understands what we do.

Needs good will and courtesy to let yourself being carried through all this number crunching process.

End result is what then we can appreciate. The fine art & the clean account.

Nagging feelings and the realization that always something has to be neglected - good example of a disturbance!

Oh, now that you mention your "17" the Madonna song popped into my head: "You will be my lucky star" - damn, I got old!

My favorite of your answers: "As a Bavarian I am really good at swearing, which I will then do excessively. Yanks all the calcium out of my arteries" :-) Hilarious!